dig420

how the FUCK would we know since suspects are being held without without being charged, no access to attorney's and often without even notifying anyone they're being held? You right-wing nut jobs just stagger me with your willful ignorance.

also, this article isn't about suppressing the 1st Amendment, which anyone with a more than passing familiarity with the English language would be able to comprehend. It's about campaign finance reform, something that is badly needed since we now have energy companies writing the legislation they want their bought and paid for political party, the Republicans, to pass.

See, what happens is that insurance companies spend millions of dollars on advertising to convince the dumb and gullible that there is a 'litigation explosion' whereby your average jane and john doe are trying to bankrupt the sweet and innocent insurance industry. They want caps on malpractice awards etc. The Defense industry wants to convince the dumb and gullible that the USSR is a great danger to this country. Then Iran. Then Iraq. Then China, whatever boogieman of the day will help them sell bombs to the government. The Energy companies want the dumb and gullible to believe that government regulation is killing their business by not allowing them to collude and fix prices and hold meetings with Dick Cheney where they hand him the finished bills they want passed. The Republican Party is the designated lapdog of these large corporations and it stays that way because large corporations are allowed to underwrite the financial costs of getting elected. The Republican Party does not want this situation to change.

There are a lot of dumb and gullible people out there, most of them are Republicans, but not very many of them are willing to strut and say how proud they are of their gullibility on public message boards.